Messages in this thread | | | From | mlord <> | Subject | Re: IDE Disk speed enhancements | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:59:22 -0400 |
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David A Willmore wrote: > > On Apr 24, 8:26am, Marty Leisner wrote: > > So it would make sense to configure two disks as /dev/hda and > > /dev/hdc, instead of > > /dev/hda and /dev/hdb? ... > I have tried this recently, but with my qd6580 VLB IDE interface, this seems to > make no difference. I have the append "ide0=qd6580" in my lilo config and the > kernel parses it correctly. Does this interface serialize and I don't know > about it?
See qd6560.c for this info. The kernel does NOT serialize this interface, but then the kernel also only knows how to tune ide0 for the qd6560 -- does it actually have a second set of IDE ports??
-ml
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